Wireless bridge woes

[Gil]

I set up the G3MT in the living room, which is not accessible to the wired network. I have set up a Netgear ME101 bridge, talking to a Netgear ME102 AP (which is connected to the wired network), as neither of them have WPA capabilities, unlike my main wireless network that does. I set them up with the utilities on a PC, and both talk to eachother perfectly fine. However, my G3 is being problematic with it. The bridge is connected directly to the G3 via crossover cable. I set the TCP/IP settings to automatic DHCP. In the chooser, I can view AppleShare servers (my webserver), but I have problems with printers. After playing around with settings I can finally get the computer to see my Laserjet. If I restart or shut down, it's all lost, and I have to play with it all over again. I can access local IP addresses (192.168.1.xxx) via web browser, but nothing outside of my network.

Any ideas? Is there a truely Mac OS 8.6 compatible wireless adaptor or bridge out there somewhere?

 

[Gil]

...anybody? :-/

 

[coius]

do you have you DNS Setup?

What exactly are you not able to access?

Just the printers? or the net AND the printers?

If it's the net that is an issue, try setting the DNS up. You might just need to use an OpenDNS system, that may be easier.

Also, how is the bridge setup? Does it just pass the IP address from the main router to the Beige G3, or does the bridge become a DHCP Server of it's own?

It may be a subnet issue if they don't talk across the networks appropriately...

 

[benjgvps]

Try turning on its DHCP server to a range of ports not covered by your wireless router. I had to this with my wireless bridge from TPLink (Took me about 3 weeks of on and off of fiddling to get it to work).

 

[Gil]

do you have you DNS Setup?
What exactly are you not able to access?

Just the printers? or the net AND the printers?

If it's the net that is an issue, try setting the DNS up. You might just need to use an OpenDNS system, that may be easier.

Also, how is the bridge setup? Does it just pass the IP address from the main router to the Beige G3, or does the bridge become a DHCP Server of it's own?

It may be a subnet issue if they don't talk across the networks appropriately...

As stated in my original post, being able to access computers and printers is very sporadic. TCP/IP is totally nonfunctional. As far as I know, the bridge simply passes IP.